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This looks like a red (republican) accusing a blue (democrat) of wanting to abolish those amendments.
As ridiculous as most people would find it, there are a lot of Republicans that view Democrats as the party of slavery and racism, both in the past and currently. The current focus on race-based equity instead of equality just emphasizes it in their minds.
I think it might be a political compass meme.
So by that metric, blue is authoritarian right and red is authoritarian left. Not sure if that ideologically matches up on this meme and I don't want to dust off the meme tablets to dig any deeper on the research.
there are a lot of Republicans that view Democrats as the party of slavery and racism
No, they don't actually genuinely believe that, they're just muddying the waters to steer the conversation away from racism in 2023.
You sound awfully sure of yourself. Have anything to back it up?
I am not surprised you don't agree with their beliefs, but saying definitively that those beliefs don't exist surely comes with more than: Haha! I know how that could be wrong!
If you were talking about politicians and not the party members, I might even find it to be a plausible statement.
Sure, say to those people, "Look, the racist Dems have created a huge racial wealth gap between white and black families, let's OWN the racist Dems by creating and supporting policies that help the most impoverished black families and close the wealth gap."
All of the sudden they won't care about racism, they'll care about "it's because of black culture", "thugs", "black on black violence", "welfare queens", "absent father", "well that's racist against white people".
But yeah, if you find me one Republican that's like, "yeah, let's own the racist Dems by lifting impoverished black families and decreasing the racial wealth gap", that's a Republican I was wrong about.
To quote my original post:
The current focus on race-based equity instead of equality just emphasizes it in their minds.
I'm having a bit of trouble following your logic. Is this an accurate summary?
To prove that some of them think you are the racist for treating people of one skin color differently than others, they have to pass laws that specifically benefit people of that skin color, despite the fact that they think such behavior is inherently racist.
To prove that some of them think you are the racist for treating people of one skin color differently than others
Bingo, this is the part where those same people say that Dems are racist against white people.
Schrodinger's Democrats: simultaneously racist against black people and against white people.
There's no coherent logical story, because it's not supposed to make sense, it's supposed to muddy the waters.
Thank you for clarifying. That definitely gives me a better understanding of your view.
Never forget that if someone is lying, it's because they expect someone else to believe them. There would be no point to trying to fool the Republican rank-and-file if a majority of them weren't fools.
That said, there could be a significant amount of self-foolery going on.